Biography

After obtaining a PhD in 1991, Pete Smith worked as a Higher- then Senior-Scientific Officer at the MAFF Central Science Laboratory until 1994. He then worked as a Band 6 and Band 5 Senior Research Scientist at Rothamsted Research before joining the University of Aberdeen as a Senior Lecturer in 2001. He became a Reader in 2003, and Professor of Soils & Global Change in 2005. His main areas of expertise are in modelling greenhouse gas / carbon mitigation, bio-energy for fossil fuel offsets, and biological carbon sequestration. He is co-leader with Prof Jo Smith of the Environmental Modelling Group (2 Academic staff, 16 Post-docs, 12 PhDs). He is Science Director of Scotland's Climate Change Centre of Expertise (www.climatexchange.org.uk), Director of Food Systems of the Scottish Food Security Alliance-Crops (www.sfsa-crops.org), and is Theme Leader of the University-wide theme, Environment and Food Security (www.abdn.ac.uk/environment-food-security/). He is editor for Global Change Biology and Global Change Biology Bioenergy.

He was a Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award holder (2008-2013), Royal Society Research Fellow (2008-201?3), and is a Fellow of the Society of Biology (FSB; elected 2008), Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE; elected 2009), and a Rothamsted Research Fellow (2010-2016).